Buy this book on-line Bloomsbury Auctions : The Ornithological Library of the late S. Dillon Ripley: Friday, 10 June, 2005London: Bloomsbury Auctions, 2005
Auction catalogue, near fine condition, pictorial card covers, 12" x 8", 68 pages, 280 lots, illustrated in colour and b/w, -----------Sale catalogue for Bloomsbury Auctions, Bloomsbury House, 24 Maddox Street, London W1S 1PP, on Friday, 10th June 2005----------------"All keen birders are sure to have seen the excellent coverage that this sale has attracted internationally. Major publications in the USA and Europe have carried articles relating to this unique collection. When S.Dillon Ripley (1913 - 2001) ended his 20 year tenure as Secretary of the Smithsonian in 1984 he left behind an institution which had tripled its annual visitor numbers to over 30 million and which had opened eight new museums.. On his retirement he returned to his first and greatest passion – ornithology – joining the Museum of Natural History, where he worked until his death in March 2001. Ripley wrote extensively but is perhaps best remembered for Handbook of the Birds of India, 1968-74, which he co-authored with Salim Ali and the important monograph Rails of the World, 1977. His ornithological collection reflects his passion and his scholarship. On his library and study shelves next to the visually appealing colour plate highspots such as the 8vo edition of Audubon’s The Birds of America, 1840 might sit a pamphlet on a rare species of Asian gamebird or an important monograph on the birds of a certain area of the world. This is truly a working library with many books bearing notes and annotations; it is rich in obscure offprints and long runs of ornithological journals and periodicals – there are for example a complete 27 volume set of the British Museum Catalogue of Birds, edited by Richard Bowdler Sharpe and a complete set from vol.1 to date of the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, each profusely illustrated with hand-coloured plates and full of scholarly essays and research." Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Bloomsbury Auctions : The Ornithological Library of the late S. Dillon Ripley: Friday, 10 June, 2005. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including first editions, used books, libri antichi, out-of-print books and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |